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contemporary printmaking titled 'Poverty By System', 28x24 inches, by artist Koustav Nag on Archival Paper

Poverty By System (Bharat Stamp Overprint) Printmaking Contemporary Printmaking

Sale price Rs. 58,000.00 INR
Subject Contemporary
Medium Printmaking
Shape Vertical
Availability In stock SKU AZ_PM_174935
Type Original
Size  28x24 in/71x61 cm
Material Archival Paper
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Cyanotype Palette, Halftone Texture, Stamped Emblem, Surveillance, Vulnerability, Institutional Critique, Mixed-Media Print

Rendered in a cool, cyanotype-like hush, the image suspends a human figure in a fragile in‑between—part apparition, part documentary trace—where the halftone grain turns flesh into a field of signal and interference. The bold red stamp, with its bureaucratic insistence, punctures the softness of the body and functions like a seal of permission or condemnation, suggesting how identity is processed, branded, and made legible by systems that do not truly see. The compositional tension between the reclining vulnerability and the circular emblem creates a quiet violence: intimacy is overlaid by authority, and the private moment becomes public evidence. In this collision of monochrome atmosphere and graphic intrusion, the work reads as a meditation on surveillance, institutional memory, and the uneasy permanence of being recorded.

Type

Original

Size

28x24

Material

Archival Paper

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